Cryptocoin Mining?

[Zargon]

yeah the 6950 doesnt mine that well compared to others apparantly

the 5 series owns

 

[dust]

100+ heat indexes for you too eh?

I got my 6950 doing better, I had undervolted 20%, I raised that to 12% and its doing better, Ill double check the number, but the heat is only up a few C, still under 80, and running at close to stock clock

~285 MHash 75C, 10% undervolted, stock 800mhz clock

-v -w64 -f90(its my HTPC)

I ran mine at 1v, 725 memory, 840 core, fan at 70% and temps steady at 62C. The flags -v -w128 - f15 giving a 330Mhash/sec. That was for mining only, I found that the system would freeze if I do anything else at the same time, but if I raise the voltage to 1.050v I don't have any problems.

 

[McLovin]

Ok so I have dipped my feet into the bitcoin waters and I fear I am a little lost lol.


I have done what OP suggested and setup BitCoin, GUIMiner, and a pool account with bitcoin.cz.

I am using the rig in my sig and am generating 86.1 Mhash/s. I have no flags setup and my GPU is running at 92C(!). I tried to put the -s flag into GUIMiner and even set it for -s 15.0 and still no difference is seen. Am I doing something wrong here? I don't think my GPU will take running that hot for very long lol.

With my current setup @ the current rate, is it even worth me continuing to pursue this?

 

[Imouto]

AMD card = little profit
NVIDIA card = huge loss

A 5830 gets about 300 MH/s and draws a way less power.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

 

[Lonbjerg]

I wonder what will happen to bitcoin, when AMD goes away from VLIW (next generation)...

 

[Zargon]

I ran mine at 1v, 725 memory, 840 core, fan at 70% and temps steady at 62C. The flags -v -w128 - f15 giving a 330Mhash/sec. That was for mining only, I found that the system would freeze if I do anything else at the same time, but if I raise the voltage to 1.050v I don't have any problems.

wow.

you use afterburner? trixx?

 

[Chiropteran]

With my current setup @ the current rate, is it even worth me continuing to pursue this?

No, not unless you get free electricity. I am not familiar with nvidia's control panel and such, but with AMD video cards you can manually increase the fan speed to deal with the heat and keep the card at a manageable temperature. If you do decide to continue mining with your nvidia card, you should look into that. But it is probably a net loss after cost of electricity, unless yours is free.

 

[Chiropteran]

I wonder what will happen to bitcoin, when AMD goes away from VLIW (next generation)...

Used 5 series card value will skyrocket!

</dreaming>

 

[dust]

wow.

you use afterburner? trixx?

I'm using Afterburner 2.1.0

 

[Zargon]

I'll check it out

I installed trix, but I am not fond of it

 

[m3t4lh34d]

Yeah, Trixx is not the best of apps for overclocking. I heard the new version allows overclocking and overvolting independently, but every version up until now only allowed you to set all of your cards at 1 setting. And in the case of my 6970s, my PCS+ would BSOD @ 1.3v but my Flashed 6950 2GB required the 1.3v to run at 940 mhz to match the PCS+' stock speeds, so I was in a bind. And if I used Afterburner Battlefield Bad company 2 would crash, so I was stuck using the AMD CCC which only let me run both cards at 840 mhz since thats all a 6950 will OC to in the CC, and in Crossfire both cards will downclock to the slowest card of course, performance wise.

 

[Mir96TA]

No Bit coin today
Way Too Hot
Its gonna reach 37 c today........ sheesh
MY Central A/C having hard time keeping up
Time to call back up infantry
Nothing beets couple of 10 Ton Portable A/C
Come on SUN Bring it ON!

 

[Chiropteran]

Pretty hot here too.

Can't wait for winter, where the heat produced by mining is a benefit instead of an annoyance.

 

[dalamchops]

AMD card = little profit
NVIDIA card = huge loss

A 5830 gets about 300 MH/s and draws a way less power.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

i don't see how it's little profit when u can make over 1000% on the cost of electricity provided you already own the hardware.

 

[Imouto]

You can get a profit of 1/2 invested money in electricity bill as its best in US. Meaning for each 100 bucks spent in electricity you get 50$. Thats 30&#8364; of each 100 in electricity in my country because electricity is rated at 0.18&#8364; kWh. With a 5850 running the whole day at its best it's 20&#8364;/month. I won't blast my card for such a low amount and ofc wont invest 120&#8364; in a crossfire and wait for 5 months to break even.

Sorry but this is only for US ppl in states with low electricity rates.

 

[Smartazz]

97 degrees today, no way am I mining today.

 

[Red Storm]

97 degrees today, no way am I mining today.

I had to remind myself I was reading a post on a forum about electronic video cards.

 

[alkemyst]

Do most of you not have air conditioning? I am interested in the fiat currency aspect of this technology and the way it almost evolves into a direct exchange of GPU once a level of money has been hit. Sort of like a caste system.

 

[Zargon]

I had to remind myself I was reading a post on a forum about electronic video cards.

lol

Do most of you not have air conditioning? I am interested in the fiat currency aspect of this technology and the way it almost evolves into a direct exchange of GPU once a level of money has been hit. Sort of like a caste system.

I need to clean my condensor I think, its seemed a bit stressed with a few miners running

 

[Jen]

Do most of you not have air conditioning? I am interested in the fiat currency aspect of this technology and the way it almost evolves into a direct exchange of GPU once a level of money has been hit. Sort of like a caste system.

i have a basement , which i might say is becoming a bit warm with this down there


Jen

 

[Mir96TA]

Do most of you not have air conditioning? I am interested in the fiat currency aspect of this technology and the way it almost evolves into a direct exchange of GPU once a level of money has been hit. Sort of like a caste system.

I do !
Heck! I have 3 A/C units
One central A/C it can only fight 10c degree difference
Now my portable A/C can easily fight 30 c 80 &#37; duty Cycle
With that much of cooling efforts being put then I come around and
Run computer which blowing HOT air like 52 c sheeeh I feel guilty ;(

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

you have to enable the the second graphics card by "extending desktop" in Windows? I can't believe I forgot.

I sat at my 2nd rig for 2 hrs today plugging and unplugging the damn dummy plug I made. I even cleaned the resistors with IPA fearing bad connection. LOL. Dumb me -_-

I should be closing in on 1ghash now

 

[alkemyst]

i have a basement , which i might say is becoming a bit warm with this down there


Jen

Get you some a/c, profit!

 

[alkemyst]

I do !
Heck! I have 3 A/C units
One central A/C it can only fight 10c degree difference
Now my portable A/C can easily fight 30 c 80 % duty Cycle
With that much of cooling efforts being put then I come around and
Run computer which blowing HOT air like 52 c sheeeh I feel guilty ;(

dude, when you said you have 2 ten-ton portables you entered the realm of 'damn, son just doesn't understand things'.

 

[Jen]

Get you some a/c, profit!

as long as i dont see them above 85c i feel i am fine . hottest one today was 75c from what i see with putty.

wonders what have i gotten myself in to , knows full well i will faint when i see the electric bill . maybe i will plead insanity when they take me to court

Jen